vesh
Albanian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Albanian *wesi, from earlier *ōusi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws- and dual ending *-ih₁. Cognate with Lithuanian ausìs (“id”), Ancient Greek οὖς (oûs), Latin auris.
Noun
vesh m (plural veshë, definite veshi, definite plural veshët)
Declension
Compounds
- veshbigë
- veshcurr
- veshgomar
- veshgjatë
- veshlepur
- veshlopatë
- veshllapush
- veshmadh
- veshpipëz
- veshqiqër
- veshqok
- veshrëndë
- veshshkurtër
- veshshpuar
- veshvogël
Etymology 2
From Proto-Albanian *wesja, from Proto-Indo-European *woséyeti, from *wes- (compare English wear, Sanskrit वस्ते (vaste), Tocharian B wäs-, Latin vestis).
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Uncertain. Possibly akin to Lithuanian vaĩsius (“fruit”), alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁ō (“vine”) or perhaps even the same as for the sense “ear”.[1] By some identified as the source of Ancient Greek βαίεσσα (baíessa, “bunch of grapes”).[2]
Declension
References
- Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “vesh”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 501
- Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak (2016) “The earliest Albanian loanwords in Greek”, in lnternational Conference on Language Contact in the Balkans and Asia Minor, page 41
Romani
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